Best Interintellect Podcasts (2026)

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Conversation, Interintellect, and Arcadia (with Anna Gat) 1:22:15

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If technology is ruining the art of conversation, maybe it can save it, too. Anna Gat--poet, screenwriter, playwright, and founder of Interintellect--talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts on how she's reviving the French salon in the digital age. They discuss why authority, moderation, and clear formats make conversation freer, not more constrained. T…

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Grant Mulligan - Progress, Abundance and The Odyssey 53:11

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In this episode of Hostcast, we sit down with Grant Mulligan, a writer, investor, and conservationist. Our conversation ranges across fatherhood, progress, abundance, and The Odyssey. Grant is currently hosting a reading series on Interintellect dedicated to The Odyssey, which we’re exploring together. You can find the series, along with Grant’s wr…

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In Defense of Intuition (with Gerd Gigerenzer) 58:16

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Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer explains the power of intuition, how intuition became gendered, what he thinks Kahneman and Tversky's research agenda got wrong, and why it's a mistake to place intuition and conscious thinking on opposing ends of the cognition spectrum. Topics he discusses in this wide-ranging conversation with EconTalk's Russ Roberts …

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David Deutsch on the Pattern 1:26:16

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A world-class physicist makes a shocking claim: across 2,500 years and every kind of society, there has been a recurring moral exception carved out just for Jews--the idea that hurting Jews is, in some sense, legitimate. Most of the time, this doesn't erupt into pogroms. Instead, it lives as a background permission: a readiness to excuse, minimize,…

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Free Will Is Real (with Kevin Mitchell) 1:32:27

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Are we truly characters with agency, or are we just playing out our programming in the great video game of life? Contrary to those in his field who claim that free will is an illusion, neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell insists that we're agents who wield our decision-making mechanism for our own purposes. Listen as the author of Free Agents: How Evolut…

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Colonialism, Slavery, and Foreign Aid (with William Easterly) 1:04:02

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Can the promise of economic progress ever justify conquest, coercion, and control over other people’s lives? Economist William Easterly joins EconTalk's Russ Roberts to argue no--and to rethink what "development" really means in theory, in history, and in our politics today. Drawing on his new book, Violent Saviors: The West's Conquest of the Rest,…

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The Perfect Tuba: How Band, Grit, and Community Build a Better Life (with Sam Quinones) 1:00:43

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Journalist and author Sam Quinones talks about his newest book, The Perfect Tuba: Forging Fulfillment from the Brass Horn, Band, and Hard Work with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. Known for his reporting on the opioid crisis, Quinones turns to a more uplifting subject--the world of tuba players and high school marching bands. What begins as curiosity abou…

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The Status Game (with Will Storr) 1:01:11

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Will Storr talks about his book The Status Game with EconTalk host Russ Roberts, exploring how our deep need for respect and recognition shapes our behavior. The conversation delves into how we constantly judge others and compare ourselves to them, the pain of losing status, and the freedom of escaping judgment. Storr and Roberts discuss how status…

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Brian Gallagher - Writing, Journalism and Mars 58:45

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In this episode with Brian Gallagher, we dive into the subtle art that separates a writer from an editor, his years shaping stories at Nautilus, the thinkers and writers he admires, and the role of taste in writing a journalistic piece. We also talked about his upcoming book on Mars, what are some of the non-obvious hurdles we might need to deal wi…

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The Wonder of the Emergent Mind (with Gaurav Suri) 1:39:40

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How is your brain like an ant colony? They both use simple parts following simple rules which allows the whole to be so much more than the sum of the parts. Listen as neuroscientist and author Gaurav Suri explains how the mind emerges from the neural network of the brain, why habits form, why intuition often knows before language does, and why our …

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Shampoo, Property Rights, and Civilization (with Anthony Gill) 1:08:19

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Why is it okay to take the little shampoo bottles in hotels home with you but not the towels? And what stops people from taking the towels? Listen as political scientist Anthony Gill discusses the enforcement of property rights with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. Backing up their observations with insights from Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek, and our everyd…

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Primal Intelligence (with Angus Fletcher) 1:20:41

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What do Shakespeare, Hollywood storytelling, and military special operations have in common? They all excel at inventing new plans, or improvising when we're facing radical uncertainty. Listen as professor of story science Angus Fletcher tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts how we've misdefined intelligence, equating it with data--driven reasoning in plac…

Interintellect Podcasts

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Interintellect Hostcast

Interintellect

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EconTalk

Russ Roberts

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"The Riff" with Byrne Hobart and Erik Torenberg

Byrne Hobart

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Conversation, Interintellect, and Arcadia (with Anna Gat) 1:22:15

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Grant Mulligan - Progress, Abundance and The Odyssey 53:11

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In Defense of Intuition (with Gerd Gigerenzer) 58:16

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David Deutsch on the Pattern 1:26:16

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Free Will Is Real (with Kevin Mitchell) 1:32:27

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Colonialism, Slavery, and Foreign Aid (with William Easterly) 1:04:02

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The Perfect Tuba: How Band, Grit, and Community Build a Better Life (with Sam Quinones) 1:00:43

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The Status Game (with Will Storr) 1:01:11

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Brian Gallagher - Writing, Journalism and Mars 58:45

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The Wonder of the Emergent Mind (with Gaurav Suri) 1:39:40

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Shampoo, Property Rights, and Civilization (with Anthony Gill) 1:08:19

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Primal Intelligence (with Angus Fletcher) 1:20:41